The corpus record

γλισχρότης

glischrotes · ἡ

stickiness

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Where it lives

De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

γλισχρότης · glischrotēs — LSJ

stickiness, slipperiness

stickiness, Arist. HA 517b28, Thphr. CP 1.6.4, etc.; slipperiness, Plb. 26.1.14, Luc. Anach. 29.

II parsimony, stinginess, meanness

metaph., parsimony, stinginess, opp. τρυφή, Arist. Pol. 1326b38; meanness, Plu. Them. 5, Sanit. 2.125e.

2 clogging

γ. ὀνομάτων the ‘birdlime’ of verbiage (as clogging the intelligence), Ph. 1.146.

In the wild

γλισχρότητα · glischrotēta Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 48)
γλισχρότητα · glischrotēta Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 89)
γλισχρότης · glischrotēs Aristotle, Metaphysics book 8 (DIORISIS sentence 2269)
γλισχρότητα · glischrotēta Aristotle, Politics 1326b (DIORISIS sentence 2607)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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